While I agree that we ought to be in touch with our own history, I’m not sure that the apartheid museum is the best image of it — what about a photo of the bodies lying on the ground after the Sharpeville shooting, or the unconscious Hector Pieterson being
carried by fellow student Mbuyisa Makhubo, with Hector’s sister, Antoinette Sithole, running alongside?

I’m inclined to agree with Steve. Maybe even a photo of Robben Island–any of those would more closely parallel a photo of Auschwitz. A fairer comparison might have been the Holocaust Museum or Yad Veshem with the Apartheid Museum.

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